[silk] Udhay's going to be arrested on weapons charges :)

2009-06-25 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
His favorite bhut jolokia is going to be made into grenades, you see.. DRDO seems to have discovered bhut jolokia big time. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8119591.stm India plans hot chilli grenades Chillis Indian defence scientists are planning to put one of the world's hottest chilli

Re: [silk] Udhay's going to be arrested on weapons charges :)

2009-06-25 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Radhika, Y. [25/06/09 18:22 -0700]: so i am guessing that mace in india for women will contain hot chilli powder instead of pepper spray? Of course, didnt you see that old smita patil movie? Ketan Mehta's mirch masala.

Re: [silk] Udhay's going to be arrested on weapons charges :)

2009-06-25 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Charles Haynes [26/06/09 11:26 +1000]: Except that pure capsacin oleoresin is already available and used in non-lethal weapons. This is silly. Ah no. It is political. The north east is one of those areas that needs a lot of development activity, and what better way than to showcase a record

Re: [silk] Udhay's going to be arrested on weapons charges :)

2009-06-25 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Radhika, Y. [25/06/09 18:32 -0700]: sadly no. but this time i picked up some other gems - Bawarchi and Katha (Dipti patil and naseeruddin) Ah, and this is what I picked up yesterday - * Gregory Peck in I walk the line (johnny cash songs aplenty but not a cash biopic like the Joaquin Phoenix

Re: [silk] BJP pulling wool over our eyes?

2009-06-24 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
As for the bjp it vision - it was severely cross-eyed if not stone blind, but I think that got discussed threadbare on india-gii. Their online marketing campaign wasnt much better than spamming every single email address and cellphone they got their hands on. Venkatesh Hariharan [24/06/09 14:41

Re: [silk] BJP pulling wool over our eyes?

2009-06-24 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Venkatesh Hariharan [24/06/09 19:15 +0530]: I think this is way too harsh. Can you be more specific about what you Atanu Dey has the best analysis I've seen http://www.deeshaa.org/2009/03/16/bjps-it-for-all/ And see this india-gii thread with posts by Atanu, me and various others

Re: [silk] BJP pulling wool over our eyes?

2009-06-24 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
It actually looks like its copied from various vendor's RFPs that'd get submitted to BOTH parties just before election time. Follow the money would be an interesting game to play after that. lukhman_khan [25/06/09 02:44 -]: I think this is way too harsh. Can you be more specific about

Re: [silk] BJP pulling wool over our eyes?

2009-06-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ss [24/06/09 07:21 +0530]: Who exactly is this core Hindu who is supposed to vote for the BJP? I think he meant hardcore hindu, like hardcore porn

Re: [silk] BJP pulling wool over our eyes?

2009-06-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Let's be clear here 1. The sort of right that has a religious / communal ideology (bjp / sangh parivar here, the christian right elsewhere..) 2. The economic policy right wingers (the classic definition) 3. The anti communist right wingers etc etc. The 3 types can be entirely distinct, you

Re: [silk] Chinese censorship software update

2009-06-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Udhay Shankar N [17/06/09 06:50 +0530]: Architecture is politics. Lessigisms aside .. this is typical 'how the internet business works in china'. Article in the bbc about how this software is [1] based on code ripped off from a cybersitter program produced by a US company, so involved in

Re: [silk] Indian foodies

2009-06-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
You want your head to spin a lot more .. here's how to do it. http://bhargavasarma.blogspot.com/2009/04/aachamana-vidhi-its-significance.html Even your periyaval wouldn’t do it this rigorously I think. srs -Original Message- From:

Re: [silk] Indian foodies

2009-06-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
The modern traditionalists are the sort who also insist that ancient india had everything from airplanes (pushpaka vimana) to atomic bombs (brahmastra etc etc - must have got that idea from the cheesy fireworks displays in the Ramayana / Mahabharata TV soap operas) P.S. I hope

Re: [silk] Indian foodies

2009-06-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Have you heard the old fable of the priests and the cat? There was this guru whose hermitage had a pet cat in it. Once, the guru was praying / performing a sacrifice when the cat, chasing a mouse, ran into and upset his sacrificial vessels, flowers etc. So the guru ordered his disciples to tie

Re: [silk] Indian techies - eat yer heart out!

2009-06-08 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Pemanent and non subconscious? I don’t know .. most Indians who have been stateside pick up at least some bits and pieces of an American accent. Me, I find myself lapsing into a malay accent (complete with -lah ending every other sentence) in malaysia, American stateside, broad telugu accented

Re: [silk] Burnout

2009-06-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Well .. I've sat through telecons that are strictly 'within india' and telecons that are international. The difference is .. well, work actually gets done in those international telecons. Not necessarily the case when that telecon is with strictly local players .. suresh Raj Shekhar

Re: [silk] Indian foodies

2009-06-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Sangeetha in Adyar serves a pretty decent variety of true chettinad dishes - puttu among them. And adai pradhaman during onam too -Original Message- From: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net [mailto:silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net] On Behalf Of .

Re: [silk] Indian foodies

2009-06-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Sumant Srivathsan [02/06/09 20:09 +0530]: Maybe Madhu can tell us more about how this works. I'd certainly avoid charging Rs. 200 for pongal in Madras. I couldn't stay open for more than a week if I did. In Bombay, however... run a five star hotel and you can charge 40..60 bucks for a cup of

Re: [silk] Indian foodies

2009-06-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Charles Haynes [03/06/09 11:11 +1000]: So why is it virtually impossible to get pork dishes in Chinese restaurants in India? It would be like going to a country where none of the Italian restaurants served pasta! Well, that'd entirely shut out the muslim diners - and beef dishes would drive

Re: [silk] Indian foodies

2009-06-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Charles Haynes [03/06/09 11:42 +1000]: Not all Muslims require halal, and that explanation while facile doesn't make sense to me. Muslims are less than 20% of the population no? Why isn't there at least one Chinese restaurant that will serve of the population yes.. of the non vegetarian

Re: [silk] Indian foodies

2009-06-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Charles Haynes [03/06/09 11:42 +1000]: Shhh, don't tell the Bangaloreans but Debbie and I *love* Keralan cuisine. Fresh ingredients, liberal use of coconut milk, lots of fresh seafood. Yum yum yum. Of all the Indian regional cuisines we liked it best. Even better than Andhra, and I'm a serious

Re: [silk] Indian foodies

2009-06-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Gujjus want to travel so they can tell kantibhai and urmilaben back home about it. And kantibhai etc if from an older generation are going to be horrified at this waste of money - gujjus are, right after marwadis, the community that's most stereotyped as 'kanjoos' / stingy / miserly or

Re: [silk] Indian foodies

2009-06-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
The Japanese or Chinese ... well, they're even more unadventurous than the Indians. Thais and Vietnamese (and particularly, Malays, Indonesians and Singaporeans) will eat anything from anywhere - their countries are melting pots, and there's lots of foods that filter back and forth between

Re: [silk] silk archives in mbox format

2009-06-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
lists.hserus.net should have a archive for the last 4-5 years Lists.hserus.net is not archiving anything. The egroups / yahoogroups archive can be exported to mbox I think

Re: [silk] Burnout

2009-06-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: In my case, after that nightmare with the insurance agency, I dumped them and switched to ICICI Lombard, which let me buy it online. ICICI also cost some 30% more, but at that point I was very happy to pay the markup. Try to claim from them I guess? Or from most of

Re: [silk] Burnout

2009-06-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
- and horrifically expensive so you wouldnt want to base too many support staff there at all. Of course this is all wild generalizing and armchair theory. Confidently look forward to IG and others pulling these apart and proving me wrong (and I hope I am wrong, really). srs Suresh Ramasubramanian [01/06

Re: [silk] Burnout

2009-06-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Venkat Mangudi [01/06/09 20:37 +0530]: Well, IMHO, all those no-freezer-needed no-preservative types from MTR et al are very high on Sodium Saturated fats. I used to survive on them for a while during my travel days in the US. Then sense kicked in The alternative would be typical US diets

[silk] Archie proposes to Veronica next month ..

2009-05-31 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
.. while a tearful Betty and shocked Jughead look on. Sigh .. the suspense has only been going on for about 6 decades now. http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009/05/comic-book-shoc.html srs

Re: [silk] Burnout

2009-05-31 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Radhika, Y. [31/05/09 07:18 -0700]: there is one thing this article does not mention - are you willing to take a drop in income and corresponding responsibility to reduce stress? are you willing to take a lifestyle dip? stress is greatly reduced if one cut away the excess. I did that - moved

Re: [silk] Burnout

2009-05-31 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Mohit (मॊिहत) [31/05/09 20:50 +0530]: And that's another thing people forget. The importance of regular, decent, clean, hygienic, hot food! Not sure whether it plays a part in burnout, but it does affect your stress-levels. As does the lack of exercise (not that i've got any in the last 13

Re: [silk] Netherlands to close prisons for lack of criminals

2009-05-28 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Udhay Shankar N [29/05/09 08:56 +0530]: There's a polemic (or ten) hiding in here, about the benefits of sexual freedom, legalisation of recreational substances and so on. To my eye, there's also a business opportunity, but that's an entirely separate discussion. Well I dont know about that.

Re: [silk] Hello

2009-05-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
SVR was the usual in Hyderabad .. Sri Venkata Ramana .. Often also abbreviated as Sriven or Lorven .. Sri or Lord Venkataramana No shortage of those .. tourist bus operators, schools, stores, restaurants .. srs -Original Message- From:

Re: [silk] Why have Indian exit polls been so off lately?

2009-05-20 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Shiv, this is email - and not a postmodernistic thesis, where more words necessarily means a stronger argument. ss [20/05/09 20:22 +0530]: On Wednesday 20 May 2009 9:11:34 am Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: I put it to you that IG didn’t particularly intend this as a laundry list of megalomaniac

Re: [silk] Why have Indian exit polls been so off lately?

2009-05-20 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I know an airline that operates flying pigs .. 'swine flew' [SRS: QUICK. BOOK THOSE TICKETS TO THAT ISLET OFF MACAO BEFORE HE CHANGES HIS MIND AND HEADS BACK THIS WAY. REMEMBER, BOOK THE TICKETS IN STRANGE NAMES. CALL ME AGHA HILALY OR SOMETHING] srs

Re: [silk] Why have Indian exit polls been so off lately?

2009-05-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Far more than that, the bjp's campaign was very in your face and unsolicited - on mobiles, and on email. They even managed to get Rajesh Jain (yes, netcore guy) to spam for them .. and spam heavily enough to get huge amounts of his IP space (a couple of /25s) blocked in spamhaus.org and

Re: [silk] Why have Indian exit polls been so off lately?

2009-05-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Mahesh Murthy [19/05/09 12:20 +0530]: Rajesh is a BJP supporter. He wasn't 'hired' in that sense. congratulate him from me for his spectacular own goal then

Re: [silk] Why have Indian exit polls been so off lately?

2009-05-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
do hope the entire campaign was not him. Suresh Ramasubramanian [18/05/09 23:58 -0700]: Mahesh Murthy [19/05/09 12:20 +0530]: Rajesh is a BJP supporter. He wasn't 'hired' in that sense. congratulate him from me for his spectacular own goal then

Re: [silk] Why have Indian exit polls been so off lately?

2009-05-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
- but that there was probably none whatsoever. Which does amount to the same thing. Mahesh On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.netwrote: as for hired - not sure if he was the guy who was behind anything other than the friendsofbjp.org spam. there was tons of flashy banner

Re: [silk] Why have Indian exit polls been so off lately?

2009-05-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Sire is used for the king of your land, tops. Or your father, in outmoded english -Original Message- From: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net [mailto:silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net] On Behalf Of Bharat Shetty Sent: Tuesday, 19 May 2009 18:50 To:

Re: [silk] Why have Indian exit polls been so off lately?

2009-05-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Thaths [18/05/09 11:54 -0700]: a couple of tests with my Yahoo account just now and it looks like the new AJAXy Yahoo Mail adds the header. The old Classic version not only does not add the header, but also inserts seemingly random invisible characters (=0A=0AS.=0A=0A=0A---, etc.) into the body

Re: [silk] Why have Indian exit polls been so off lately?

2009-05-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ss [19/05/09 07:14 +0530]: On Monday 18 May 2009 11:36:44 am Divya Manian wrote: On the other hand, anyone inciting anybody else, or dehumanising some people is a threat to secularism and should be stopped. I do not disagree Divya - but you know I have laid a trap (or I will now proceed to

Re: [silk] Why have Indian exit polls been so off lately?

2009-05-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Bharat Shetty [17/05/09 05:07 -0400]: It is a well established fact that Modi is a decisive leader with strong emphasis on good governance and strong development yielding strong results. No wonder Gujarath has been given thumbs up in most Are you joking? Or do you actually believe that?

Re: [silk] Why have Indian exit polls been so off lately?

2009-05-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull ... W.C.Fields srs -Original Message- From: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net [mailto:silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net] On Behalf Of Bharat Shetty Sent: Sunday, 17 May 2009

Re: [silk] Why have Indian exit polls been so off lately?

2009-05-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Bharat Shetty [17/05/09 18:49 -0400]: Please understand that I said these because supporters of both sides use these terms commonly in today's context and I refuse to be branded as supporter of a side you people might want to associate with me. no no .. not both sides. only most of the right -

Re: [silk] Why have Indian exit polls been so off lately?

2009-05-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Divya Manian [17/05/09 17:20 -0700]: I think it is ridiculous to censor words just because it is a jargon employed by some hardliners. Bharat is trying to present a view point that is most common among middle class Hindus. The least we can do is to listen to what he has to say. That was

Re: [silk] Why have Indian exit polls been so off lately?

2009-05-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Thaths [Saturday, 16 May 2009 9:04 PM] The last couple of general elections (2004, 2009) exit poll predictions have been significantly different from the actual outcomes. And the difference is more than the exit poll's margin of Given that I saw at least one channel (Times Now I think)

Re: [silk] Why have Indian exit polls been so off lately?

2009-05-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
- 22s + the 60+s. Maybe by more than 3:2. - Perhaps all of this could have seen to point to a lopsided victory and not a close shave. On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: What

Re: [silk] many a true word is spoken in jest?

2009-05-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan [15/05/09 21:06 +0530]: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 7:34 PM, sur...@hserus.net sur...@hserus.netwrote: if iliad knows any, beyond 'midnight express' on ttk road, and sleazy tea kadai dives... I'd like to find out So do I. Though, I've been told that the late-night

Re: [silk] many a true word is spoken in jest?

2009-05-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan [15/05/09 22:05 +0530]: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.netwrote: my wife would quite probably object Even if she came along? no midnight dinners when you have a 4 1/2 yr old kid who needs her sleep :)

Re: [silk] Imperialistic countries

2009-05-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Kiran K Karthikeyan [13/05/09 17:08 +0530]: Yes, they are. But it doesn't make sense to me why somebody has to learn the theory of relativity and rigid body physics in 11th standard. Even if taught correctly in all CBSE schools (which have these subjects in their curriculum, and which I followed

Re: [silk] Imperialistic countries

2009-05-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Abhishek Hazra [13/05/09 18:45 +0530]: It's funny you mentioned resnick and halliday - when I got to Australia after my 12th I was amazed when I found that I would be using many of the same books we read for our 12th boards. did you also read the orange and black edition of resnick halliday?

Re: [silk] Imperialistic countries

2009-05-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Bharat Shetty [11/05/09 08:38 -0400]: discussions I've had. Is it true that the internal conflicts transcending over various factors like religions, caste coupled with bad governance, mismanagement didn't help India to develop after Independence ? You'll hear a lot about how india's economy

Re: [silk] Best Science book you would recommend to a friend ?

2009-05-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Charles Haynes [07/05/09 10:52 +1000]: We don't kill those, they said. They eat cockroaches and do no harm. Much - even occasional painful bites - can be forgiven an efficient eater of cockroaches.

[silk] German ban on 'double barreled' surnames

2009-05-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8034662.stm I wonder what the law is in India, and what happens when there's a name change request after say a Mr.Roy Chowdhury marries a Miss Sen Sharma .. The british seem to have quadruple and longer barreled surnames in the pg wodehouse class at least.

Re: [silk] German ban on 'double barreled' surnames

2009-05-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Ah. Clearly future silk material. Congratulations to the proud paati amma and pethi (oh yeah and the appa too) Deepa Mohan [06/05/09 08:15 +0530]: My new granddaughter (obviously the most beautiful infant in the known Universe) has just been named Kavya Mohan Shaffer, but thankfully, Without A

[silk] Lenovo hardware password manager

2009-05-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Now that's an interesting way to do encryption - not many I've seen around offered to the general public http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=224

Re: [silk] IBM's Watson on Jeopardy

2009-04-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Kiran K Karthikeyan [30/04/09 14:39 +0530]: IBM is doing their next publicity stunt [1]after Deep Blue defeated Kasparov. Its interesting because the challenge of a computer is not actually searching and finding the answer, but understanding the question itself. As a new IBMer and as an old

Re: [silk] IBM's Watson on Jeopardy

2009-04-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
You're actually talking substantial AI - some of those connections can be so damned arbit, its worse than '6 degrees of separation' .. so the only feasible answer would be Kevin Bacon, or maybe Udhay Shankar. srs -Original Message- From:

Re: [silk] Need some help

2009-04-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Not trolling as such. Merely taking one exaggerated attitude and combating it with another. That article is accurate enough about gujjus and 'veg only buildings'. And any state with bjp in power for long enough has them survive only because bigotry is actively encouraged and indoctrinated.

Re: [silk] Pink Chaddi Campaign hacked on Facebook

2009-04-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Kiran Jonnalagadda [15/04/09 01:18 +0530]: Does anyone here know how to get the attention of Facebook's management? I have a friend there who heads facebook security. He's not a contact I use very often, certainly not for run of the mill hacked account cases for which FB does have a process

Re: [silk] Pink Chaddi Campaign hacked on Facebook

2009-04-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Kiran Jonnalagadda [15/04/09 09:14 +0530]: Facebook allows an account to be logged in from only one location at a time. How, then, could the vandalism have been carried out even when Nisha was always in control of her account? This is the point where I suspect Facebook's security

Re: [silk] On self-improvement

2009-04-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Ah, a favorite pet peeve among 'things I'd rather a HR department not do'. 'Team building' sessions that involve silly games at 'retreats' when everybody would much rather be socializing over beer and food is another. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olPmEddZjHY -- fun parody of teambuilding in

Re: [silk] On self-improvement

2009-04-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Aadisht Khanna [12/04/09 19:50 +0530]: Fortunately whenever the team 'retreat' was organised by the team itself, food and beer was the norm. Anything organised by HR was the silly games. But I found those fun too. Textbook learning and exams were usually done by the risk and compliance

Re: [silk] Indian Men Living in U.S. Strike Out

2009-04-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Its what feminists sarcastically call most men's perception of an 'ideal wife' - an angel all day long but suddenly turns into a pornstar in the bedroom. On Mon, April 6, 2009 4:46 pm, Ravi Bellur wrote: To be fair, there are some red-blooded, white-breaded American males looking for such

Re: [silk] Indian Men Living in U.S. Strike Out

2009-04-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ah. an excuse for when the wife catches you with a copy of playboy .. Srini RamaKrishnan [06/04/09 17:43 +0200]: OTOH, modern society seems to have aids to counter the genetic urges, such as pornography. Porn is a socially acceptable (in most cultures) outlet for genetic urges. Ironically

Re: [silk] Indian Men Living in U.S. Strike Out

2009-04-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
This is Krish Ashok blog material On Mon, April 6, 2009 10:45 am, Divya Manian wrote: Came across this, and found it too funny! http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123896998996190775.html Here is an extract: Given the difficulty in finding matches for Indians abroad, some matchmakers are

Re: [silk] modem phones

2009-04-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Abhijit Menon-Sen [05/04/09 07:24 +0530]: A USB data card sounds good. I should have known that such things must exist. I knew about PCMCIA ones, but I don't have a PCMCIA slot. Do you have any recommendations? Or should I just get whatever $noname card I can find in Nehru Place? nehru place -

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Madhu Menon: I think I'll call you all Goldie from now on, making you instant Punjus. ;) Hawn jee .. srs

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Mahesh Murthy [02/04/09 00:14 +0530]: Talking of names, I used to work in Hong Kong with a Billboard Kwok - I kid not, in my media-buying department, and had a client - a Marketing Manager at American Express, I kid you not again, who was somewhat unfortunately named Vagina Lau (she pronounced

[silk] Silkmeet tomorrow - madras?

2009-03-31 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
4/1 happens to be my birthday, and chandrachoodan thinks that's as good an occasion for a silkmeet as any. Anyone?

Re: [silk] Silkmeet tomorrow - madras?

2009-03-31 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Venkat Mangudi [31/03/09 15:36 +0530]: Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: 4/1 happens to be my birthday, and chandrachoodan thinks that's as good an My son shares the birthday with you. Was it fun to celebrate 1-Apr as birthday at school? Just wondering how it is going to be for my son

Re: [silk] Gmail users since April 2004

2009-03-31 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
try http://fetchmail.berlios.de/ - rewrite and its secure and actively mainiained gabin kattukaran [31/03/09 21:48 +0530]: fetchmail? You do mean getmail don't you? fetchmail's reputation has suffered over the years. I not so sure is that is really deserved. Though fetchmail is bloated

[silk] Hanif Qureishi - 'most religious leaders are fools'

2009-03-28 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
.. and he has an excellent taste in music, as the interview goes on to prove. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7895604.stm

Re: [silk] Daring trains..

2009-03-25 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Arthur Hailey did, if you read Airport. Search the text for what he calls a 'honey wagon' ps: Just got myself a VCD of airport starring burt Lancaster as mel Bakersfield, dean martin as vern demerest, jacqueline bisset (lovely!) as gwen meighen etc. When will we find enough money to design

Re: [silk] the business of charity!?!

2009-03-25 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
. [26/03/09 08:38 +0530]: aurobindo ashram etc (several of which have 100% tax exemption for social work projects they carry out, and which also have large, even grandiose building programs like that huge golden golfball at auroville, for example) ... isnt that the 5-star path to moksha

Re: [silk] TED India Registrations now open

2009-03-24 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I do hear satish jha is offering discounts over and above the ppp price to india-gii members. He didnt get too warm a reception for that (but then a lot of people didnt quite appreciate his enthusiastic olpc boosting there) Mahesh Murthy [24/03/09 19:45 +0530]: TED in the US is $6000. This I

Re: [silk] the business of charity!?!

2009-03-24 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ss [25/03/09 06:07 +0530]: Exactly what can be done about this - other than sarcasm and contempt? getting the fellow thrown out of his comfortable tenure at iim-b might help, for a start. maybe a formal complaint to the dean of iim-b for whatever good it will do? voting out the bjp / other

Re: [silk] the business of charity!?!

2009-03-24 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
. On the other hand, having the bjp voted out of power in all the states its currently dangerously active in (gujarat and karnataka now) would certainly go far to remove the threat of such ideologies being backed by state power ss [25/03/09 08:48 +0530]: On Wednesday 25 Mar 2009 7:08:38 am Suresh

[silk] Cats and Coffee warnings Re: Introduction - New Member

2009-03-24 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Jeez, its been several years since I last posted on usenet but CC warnings were a staple of such threads. 'Before you read this, keep your coffee aside and move your cat off your lap to the floor, or you are going to laugh so hard, you'll spill the coffee on your keyboard, and scare the cat so

Re: [silk] Daring trains..

2009-03-24 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Venkat Mangudi [25/03/09 11:08 +0530]: Gautam John wrote: http://englishrussia.com/?p=2367 Well, I am convinced that the menhir delivery man would say These russians are crazy. Gautam asked what'd happen if this were to take place in India. I guess the guy doing it would just have to

Re: [silk] Online cake ordering for delivery in Bangalore

2009-03-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
This one's far better - cakewalk http://bangalore.burrp.com/establishment/view/181246676 cakewalk.co.in works for their chennai branches .. and i think its the same outfit in bangalore. Or you can at least call them, eh? On Tue, March 24, 2009 6:24 am, Vinayak Hegde wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009

Re: [silk] Online cake ordering for delivery in Bangalore

2009-03-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Krish Ashok [24/03/09 09:41 +0530]: Unrelated, but it does remind me of one Ahmed's Iyengar Bakery in Fraser Town, back in the 80s. Wonder if this paragon of nomenclatural integration (like a Puliyodharai Pulav perhaps) is still around ah, national integration through cooking. I remember

Re: [silk] the business of charity!?!

2009-03-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Nishant Shah [24/03/09 10:56 +0530]: On a different analogy, this reminds me of the Englit classes where old foggy professors who looked like they were chanelling the spirit of Chaucer, would come and sneer at authors who were 'successful' or 'rich' or 'both', and made snide remarks about

Re: [silk] Chennai Silk meetup pictures

2009-03-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Nice pics - but the food at that Mediterranean place (Azulio, in the GRT Grand) has to be tasted to be believed. srs -Original Message- From: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net [mailto:silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net] On Behalf Of Venkat

Re: [silk] What is Indian culture?

2009-03-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I found some aspects of your reply interesting. It is surprising to read of these aggressive methods of 'spreading the good Lord's word'; for a moment, I thought you live in Southern Baptist country. Most of the ultra aggressive conversion / missionary types, as well as the extremely loud and

Re: [silk] What is Indian culture?

2009-03-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
suffers from many versions, most of them bad. The worst I've come across the one by ISKCon/Bhaktivedanta Trust. There is a Krsna, the supreme personality of godhead or something similar in every line and it is the first and only book in my life which I bought and threw away. I had that one

Re: [silk] What is Indian culture?

2009-03-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Dune etc had the advantage of a single author. The Mahabharata is a huge accretion of tons of third party interpolations .. every single wannabe guru with a new message found it very convenient to tack on some verses where bhishma, krishna, arjuna etc said x was a good thing, or where shakuni

Re: [silk] What is Indian culture?

2009-03-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Interesting bit of nonsense here. Quality reporting (!) to be sure. -Original Message- From: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net [mailto:silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net] On Behalf Of ss Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 10:06 PM To:

Re: [silk] What is Indian culture?

2009-03-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
This is interesting information. Could the vanity part have been because only the richest could afford to bathe often in those times and the Church was catering to the (unwashed) faithful? Even the rich - bishops, kings and such - didn’t bathe. I wonder who invented the shower - which I

Re: [silk] Need some help

2009-03-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Did anybody at all ever find ANY iit mess food at all that was worth feeding to dogs without being accused of animal cruelty? Not an IIT-ian, but stayed on IIT campuses for a few days, a time or two (mood indigo and such) Sambar is the easiest thing to make, and the Northies find unique and

Re: [silk] What is Indian culture?

2009-03-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Cory Doctorow [13/03/09 13:19 +]: Did someone call? And how did the ramayana confound you, cory? That I've got to see .. srs Charles Haynes wrote: You left out decadent westerners and their values trying to corrupt good hearted Hindus but being confounded by the virtue of the

Re: [silk] Police Ram Sene?

2009-03-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Now translate.. Khatmal is a bedbug Thulla - not sure the way its written in English script, but maybe 'drunk' Pandu and sakharam are typical 'hayseed' / rustic names As y'all can probably guess, the average street cop isn’t the most popular guy around -Original Message- From:

Re: [silk] Fwd: Favourite books read in 2008

2009-03-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Supriya Nair [13/01/09 19:27 +0530]: I also enjoyed the five books so far in Naomi Novik's *Temeraire* series, a fantasy in which the Napoleonic Wars are fought with dragons. The style is bracing, the action exquisite, and the moral and emotional weight of the books deepens with each successive

Re: [silk] Need some help

2009-03-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
lukhman_khan: I would be horrified to rent out a part of my building to a person who owned a pomerian, (or any other predominantly barking type of dog). Damn, that's about as much racial profiling as all muslims are terrorists. I know quite a lot of dogs from breeds typically believed to be

Re: [silk] Post locations too .. RE: Chennai Meet - was Re:

2009-03-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
gabin kattukaran [11/03/09 15:15 +0530]: what happened to the grt idea? grt also has a middle eastern restaurant - besides south indian and generic asian. and a quite usable bar.

Re: [silk] Post locations too .. RE: Chennai Meet - was Re:

2009-03-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan [11/03/09 15:21 +0530]: All for GRT? +1

Re: [silk] Post locations too .. RE: Chennai Meet - was Re:

2009-03-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
SO, it's grt then? GRT. How many people? Suresh Ramasubramanian Krish Ashok Chandrachoodan G Gabin Kattukaran Venkat Mangudi Sruthi Krishnan Who else? Maybe book a table for about 10 people? I know Arun Mehta is in town for this foss event ..

Re: [silk] Post locations too .. RE: Chennai Meet - was Re:

2009-03-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Its chandrachoodan's birthday I see, from facebook. Now what do we do to him when we meet him at the dinner? Sing happy birthday and cut a cake too? :) Suresh Ramasubramanian [11/03/09 15:53 +0530]: SO, it's grt then? GRT. How many people? Suresh Ramasubramanian Krish Ashok Chandrachoodan G

Re: [silk] Chennai Meet - was Re: Introducing myself. Raja Venkataraman

2009-03-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
gabin kattukaran [10/03/09 12:00 +0530]: It looks like I'm in Chennai on Thursday evening. I'd be happy to join in. I'm booked into a Harrison's Hotel in Nungambakkam. My knowledge of Chennai geography tends towards 0 as well. nungambakkam is right downtown. post mobile # i'm 98840 64791

Re: [silk] Post locations too .. RE: Chennai Meet - was Re: Introducing myself. Raja Venkataraman

2009-03-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Dinner, or Lunch? On 10-Mar-09, at 12:50 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote: Chandrachoodan - Kelly's T. Nagar (the office) +91-9884467463 Ashok - Adyar (98402 61530)

Re: [silk] Post locations too .. RE: Chennai Meet - was Re: Introducing myself. Raja Venkataraman

2009-03-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Dinner at say 7:45, Benjarong? Or would you prefer some other location? On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.netwrote: Dinner, or Lunch? Dinner, please. Lunch would have to be a rushed affair

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